The Isle of Selkath is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Lady Leyya Cyniad with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 4.602 billion Selkathians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haza. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The strong Selkathian economy, worth 329 trillion ferroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 71,624 ferroes, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Lady Leyya Cyniad has just been declared ruler of Selkath in an international press conference, Tehom-Elism has been named as Selkath's national religion, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and punitive tariffs protect local industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Selkath's national animal is the sea wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Tehom-Elism.

Selkath is ranked 123,932^nd in the world and 2^nd in Northeast Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,891.65 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.